Canadian-American science conte writer (1912–2000)

A. E. automobile Vogt
Van Vogt c. 1963
Born	Alfred Vogt (1912-04-26)April 26, 1912 Edenburg, near Gretna, Manitoba, Canada
Died	January 26, 2000(2000-01-26) (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Period	1939–1986 (science fiction)
Genre	Science fiction
Literary movement	Golden Age of Science Fiction
Spouse	Edna Mayne Hull ​ ​ (m. 1939; died 1975)​ Lydia Bereginsky ​ (m. 1979)​

Alfred Elton van Vogt (VANVOHT; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fable writer.

His fragmented, bizarre revelation style influenced later science falsehood writers, notably Philip K. Tail. He was one of honourableness most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in glory mid-twentieth century, the genre's soi-disant Golden Age, and one flawless the most complex.^[1] The Branch of knowledge Fiction Writers of America denominated him their 14th Grand Artist in 1995 (presented 1996).^[2]

Early life

Alfred Vogt (both "Elton" and "van" were added much later) was born on April 26, 1912, on his grandparents' farm deduct Edenburg, Manitoba, a tiny (and now defunct) Russian Mennonite agreement east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada, in the Mennonite West Modesty.

He was the third scrupulous six children born to Heinrich "Henry" Vogt and Aganetha "Agnes" Vogt (née Buhr), both selected whom were born in Manitoba and grew up in wheeze immigrant communities. Until he was four, van Vogt spoke solitary Plautdietsch at home.^[3]

For the lid dozen or so years fair-haired his life, van Vogt's holy man, Henry Vogt, a lawyer, stilted his family several times guts central Canada, moving to Neville, Saskatchewan; Morden, Manitoba; and at long last Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Alfred Vogt harsh these moves difficult, later remarking:

Childhood was a terrible term for me. I was adore a ship without anchor make available swept along through darkness deduct a storm. Again and fiddle with I sought shelter, only figure out be forced out of affluent by something new.^[3]

By the Decennary, living in Winnipeg, father h worked as an agent have a thing about a steamship company, but righteousness stock market crash of 1929 proved financially disastrous, and representation family could not afford dispense send Alfred to college.

All along his teen years, Alfred struck as a farmhand and splendid truck driver, and by goodness age of 19, he was working in Ottawa for honourableness Canadian Census Bureau.^{[citation needed]}

In "the dark days of '31 duct '32," van Vogt took unadorned correspondence course in writing propagate the Palmer Institute of Foundation.

He sold his first building in fall 1932.^[4] His initially published works were stories worry the true confession style show magazines such as True Story. Most of these stories were published anonymously, with the first-person narratives allegedly being written infant people (often women) in marvellous, emotional, and life-changing circumstances.^{[citation needed]}

After a year in Ottawa, earth moved back to Winnipeg, place he sold newspaper advertising move away and continued to write.

From the past continuing to pen melodramatic "true confessions" stories through 1937, operate also began writing short ghetto-blaster dramas for local radio address CKY, as well as running interviews published in trade magazines. He added the middle fame "Elton" at some point look onto the mid-1930s, and at lowest one confessional story (1937's "To Be His Keeper") was put up for sale to the Toronto Star, who misspelled his name "Alfred Alton Bogt" in the byline.^[5] In a short while thereafter, he added the "van" to his surname, and wean away from that point forward he secondhand the name "A.

E. machine Vogt" both personally and professionally.

Career

By 1938, van Vogt unequivocal to switch to writing information fiction, a genre he enjoyed reading.^[6] He was inspired bypass the August 1938 issue nigh on Astounding Science Fiction, which significant picked up at a stall. John W.

Campbell's novelette "Who Goes There?" (later adapted come into contact with The Thing from Another World and The Thing) inspired machine Vogt to write "Vault be expeditious for the Beast", which he submitted to that same magazine. Mythologist, who edited Astounding (and confidential written the story under swell pseudonym), sent van Vogt nifty rejection letter in which Mythologist encouraged van Vogt to endeavour again.

Van Vogt sent concerning story, entitled "Black Destroyer", which was accepted. It featured nifty fierce, carnivorous alien stalking grandeur crew of a spaceship, good turn served as the inspiration sustenance multiple science fiction movies, together with Alien (1979).^[a] A revised legend of "Vault of the Beast" was published in 1940.

While still living in Winnipeg, sediment 1939 van Vogt married Edna Mayne Hull, a fellow Manitoban. Hull, who had previously seized as a private secretary, went on to act as vehivle Vogt's typist, and was credited with writing several SF parabolical of her own throughout magnanimity early 1940s.

The outbreak prime World War II in Sep 1939 caused a change cage van Vogt's circumstances.

Ineligible be attracted to military service due to consummate poor eyesight, he accepted simple clerking job with the Commingle Department of National Defence. That necessitated a move back detect Ottawa, where he and dominion wife stayed for the following year and a half.

Meanwhile, his writing career continued.

"Discord in Scarlet" was van Vogt's second story to be accessible, also appearing as the protect story.^[7] It was accompanied offspring interior illustrations created by Be upfront Kramer^[b] and Paul Orban.^[8][9] (Van Vogt and Kramer^[b] thus debuted in the issue of Astounding that is sometimes identified introduction the start of the Gold Age of Science Fiction.^[10][11]) Amidst his most famous works disregard this era, "Far Centaurus" exposed in the January 1944 issue of Astounding.

Van Vogt's lid completed novel, and one admit his most famous, is Slan (Arkham House, 1946), which Mythologist serialized in Astounding (September tell somebody to December 1940).^[8] Using what became one of van Vogt's discontinuous themes, it told the report of a nine-year-old superman moving picture in a world in which his kind are slain by way of Homo sapiens.

Others saw front Vogt's talent from his have control over story,^[10] and in May 1941 van Vogt decided to grow a full-time writer, quitting diadem job at the Canadian Turnoff of National Defence. Freed dismiss the necessity of living persuasively Ottawa, he and his old woman lived for a time link with the Gatineau region of Quebec before moving to Toronto cut the fall of 1941.^[12][13]

Prolific for the duration of this period, van Vogt wrote many of his more celebrated short stories and novels contact the years from 1941 replicate 1944.

The novels The Reservation of Ptath and The Suasion Makers both appeared in magazines in serial form during that period; they were later publicised in book form after Globe War II. As well, a sprinkling (though not all) of integrity stories that were compiled benefits make up the novels The Weapon Shops of Isher, The Mixed Men and The Combat Against the Rull were available during this time.

California take post-war writing (1944–1950)

In November 1944, van Vogt and Hull pretended to Hollywood; van Vogt would spend the rest of diadem life in California. He difficult to understand been using the name "A. E. van Vogt" in ruler public life for several time, and as part of rank process of obtaining American race in 1945 he finally accept formally changed his legal label from Alfred Vogt to Aelfred Elton van Vogt.

To crown friends in the California study fiction community, he was make public as "Van".

Method and themes

Van Vogt systematized his writing course of action, using scenes of 800 voice or so where a novel complication was added or inconsequential in reference to resolved. Several of his mythological hinge on temporal conundra, uncluttered favorite theme.

He stated give it some thought he acquired many of reward writing techniques from three books: Narrative Technique by Thomas Uzzell, The Only Two Ways advance Write a Story by Can Gallishaw, and Twenty Problems collide the Fiction Writer by Gallishaw.^[3] He also claimed many a range of his ideas came from dreams; throughout his writing life blooper arranged to be awakened now and again 90 minutes during his sleep time so he could write in disarray his dreams.^[14]

Van Vogt was further always interested in the doctrine of all-encompassing systems of grasp (akin to modern meta-systems).

Blue blood the gentry characters in his very be foremost story used a system entitled "Nexialism" to analyze the alien's behavior. Around this time, be active became particularly interested in character general semantics of Alfred Korzybski.^{[citation needed]}

He subsequently wrote a fresh merging these overarching themes, The World of Ā, originally serialized in Astounding in 1945.

Ā (often rendered as Null-A), subjugation non-Aristotelian logic, refers to honesty capacity for, and practice curiosity, using intuitive, inductive reasoning (compare fuzzy logic), rather than self-referent, or conditioned, deductive reasoning. Rank novel recounts the adventures long-awaited an individual living in stupendous apparent Utopia, where those rule superior brainpower make up integrity ruling class...

though all not bad not as it seems. Keen sequel, The Players of Ā (later re-titled The Pawns remember Null-A) was serialized in 1948–49.

At the same time, rafter his fiction, van Vogt was consistently sympathetic to absolute state as a form of government.^[15] This was the case, school instance, in the Weapon Shop series, the Mixed Men stack, and in single stories much as "Heir Apparent" (1945), whose protagonist was described as clean "benevolent dictator".

These sympathies were the subject of much cumbersome discussion during van Vogt's lifetime, and afterwards.

Van Vogt promulgated "Enchanted Village" in the July 1950 issue of Other Very much Science Stories. It was reprinted in over 20 collections defect anthologies, and appeared many days in translation.^[16]

Dianetics and fix-ups (1950–1961)

In 1950, van Vogt was for a moment appointed as head of Acclamation.

Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation overlook California. Van Vogt had principal met Hubbard in 1945, coupled with became interested in his theories, which were published shortly thenceforth. Dianetics was the secular vanguard to Hubbard's Church of Scientology; van Vogt would have cack-handed association with Scientology, as subside did not approve of lying mysticism.

The California Dianetics value went broke nine months ulterior, but never went bankrupt, permission to van Vogt's arrangements clatter creditors. Shortly afterward, van Vogt and his wife opened their own Dianetics center, partly financed by his writings, until oversight "signed off" around 1961. Strip 1951 until 1961, van Vogt's focus was on Dianetics, meticulous no new story ideas flowed from his typewriter.

Fix-ups

However, before the 1950s, van Vogt retrospectively patched together many of cap previously published stories into novels, sometimes creating new interstitial substance to help bridge gaps overload the narrative. Van Vogt referred to the resulting books sort "fix-ups", a term that entered the vocabulary of science-fiction contempt.

When the original stories were closely related this was commonly successful, although some van Vogt fix-ups featured disparate stories tangled together that bore little affiliation to each other, generally fabrication for a less coherent region. One of his best-known (and well-regarded) novels, The Voyage perceive the Space Beagle (1950) was a fix-up of four wee stories including "Discord in Scarlet"; it was published in mock least five European languages bid 1955.^[8]

Although Van Vogt averaged uncut new book title every hardhearted months from 1951 to 1961, none of them were altogether new content; they were get hold of fix-ups, collections of previously available stories, expansions of previously obtainable short stories to novel lock, or republications of previous books under new titles and burst based on story material inescapable and originally published between 1939 and 1950.

Examples include The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951), The Mixed Men (1952), The War Against the Rull (1959), and the two "Clane" novels, Empire of the Atom (1957) and The Wizard of Linn (1962), which were inspired (like Asimov's Foundation series) by Exemplary imperial history; specifically, as Friend Knight wrote, the plot emblematic Empire of the Atom was "lifted almost bodily" from go off of Robert Graves' I, Claudius.^[17] (Also, one non-fiction work, The Hypnotism Handbook, appeared in 1956, though it had apparently antediluvian written much earlier.)

After go into detail than a decade of act their Dianetics center, Hull playing field van Vogt closed it birdcage 1961.

Nevertheless, van Vogt repaired his association with the syndicate and was still president exert a pull on the Californian Association of Dianetic Auditors into the 1980s.^[14]

Return involve writing and later career (1962–1986)

Though the constant re-packaging of reward older work meant that unwind had never really been ebb from the book publishing planet, van Vogt had not accessible any wholly new fiction on almost 12 years when soil decided to return to terminology in 1962.

He did beg for return immediately to science fable, but instead wrote the sole mainstream, non-sf novel of her highness career.

Van Vogt was extremely affected by revelations of totalitarianpolice states that emerged after Field War II. Accordingly, he wrote a mainstream novel that take action set in Communist China, The Violent Man (1962).

Van Vogt explained that to research that book he had read Cardinal books about China. Into that book he incorporated his mind of "the violent male type", which he described as fastidious "man who had to affront right", a man who "instantly attracts women" and who let go said were the men who "run the world".^[18] Contemporary reviews were lukewarm at best,^[19] promote van Vogt thereafter returned revivify science fiction.

From 1963 quantify the mid-1980s, van Vogt once upon a time again published new material make known a regular basis, though fix-ups and reworked material also arrived relatively often. His later novels included fix-ups such as The Beast (also known as Moonbeast) (1963), Rogue Ship (1965), Quest for the Future (1970) brook Supermind (1977).

He also wrote novels by expanding previously publicized short stories; works of that type include The Darkness snatch Diamondia (1972) and Future Glitter (also known as Tyranopolis; 1973).

Novels that were written modestly as novels, and not serialized magazine pieces or fix-ups, challenging been very rare in vehivle Vogt's oeuvre, but began drawback appear regularly beginning in probity 1970s.

Van Vogt's original novels included Children of Tomorrow (1970), The Battle of Forever (1971) and The Anarchistic Colossus (1977). Over the years, many sequels to his classic works were promised, but only one appeared: Null-A Three (1984; originally in print in French). Several later books were initially published in Continent, and at least one anecdote only ever appeared in barbarous language editions and was in no way published in its original Creditably.

Final years

When the 1979 hide Alien appeared, it was illustrious that the plot closely mated the plots of both Black Destroyer and Discord in Scarlet, both published in Astounding magazine in 1939, and then posterior published in the 1950 reservation Voyage of the Space Beagle. Van Vogt sued the manufacture company for plagiarism, and at the end of the day collected an out-of-court settlement come within earshot of $50,000 from 20th Century Fox.

In increasingly frail health, van Vogt published his final short appear in 1986.

Personal life

Van Vogt's first wife, Edna Mayne Husk, died in 1975. Van Vogt married Lydia Bereginsky in 1979; they remained together until fulfil death.

Death

On January 26, 2000, A. E. van Vogt boring in Los Angeles from Alzheimers disease. He was survived antisocial his second wife.^[22]

Critical reception

Critical pronounce about the quality of front line Vogt's work is sharply biramous.

An early and articulate commentator was Damon Knight. In uncut 1945^[23] chapter-long essay reprinted guess In Search of Wonder,^[15] privileged "Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. camper Vogt", Knight described van Vogt as "no giant; he assignment a pygmy who has acute to operate an overgrown typewriter".

Knight described The World healthy Null-A as "one of rendering worst allegedly adult science falsehood stories ever published". Concerning front line Vogt's writing, Knight said:

In general van Vogt seems be a consequence me to fail consistently rightfully a writer in these rudimentary ways: 1. His plots compulsion not bear examination.

2. Cap choice of words and fulfil sentence-structure are fumbling and dull. 3. He is unable either to visualize a scene be obsessed with to make a character earmarks of real.

About Empire of the Atom Knight wrote:

If you jar only throw your reasoning wits out of gear—something many machine Vogt fans find easy soft-soap do—you'll enjoy this one.

Knight besides expressed misgivings about van Vogt's politics.

He noted that camper Vogt's stories almost invariably cause absolute monarchy in a plausive light. In 1974, Knight retracted some of his criticism rearguard finding out about Vogt's verbal skill down his dreams as splendid part of his working methods:^[24]

This explains a good deal flick through the stories, and suggests avoid it is really useless cut short attack them by conventional jurisprudence.

If the stories have splendid dream consistency which affects readers powerfully, it is probably inapplicable that they lack ordinary consistency.

Knight's criticism greatly damaged van Vogt's reputation.^[25] On the other adjoining, when science fiction author Prince K. Dick was asked^[26] which science fiction writers had played his work the most, put your feet up replied:

I started reading [science fiction] when I was be almost twelve and I read numerous I could, so any father who was writing about ditch time, I read.

But there's no doubt who got easy to get to off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt. In attendance was in van Vogt's expressions a mysterious quality, and that was especially true in The World of Null-A. All authority parts of that book sincere not add up; all primacy ingredients did not make dialect trig coherency.

Now some people restrain put off by that. They think that's sloppy and mistake, but the thing that bewitched me so much was saunter this resembled reality more already anybody else's writing inside steal outside science fiction.

Dick also defended van Vogt against Damon Knight's criticisms:

Damon feels that it's bad artistry when you construct those funky universes where society fall through the floor.

It's like he's viewing a version the way a building scrutineer would when he's building your house. But reality really assay a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing level-headed, how frightened are you care for chaos? And how happy build you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much on account of he made me appreciate deft mysterious chaotic quality in excellence universe which is not criticism be feared.

In a review stare Transfinite: The Essential A.

Compare. van Vogt, science fiction author Paul Di Filippo said:

Van Vogt knew precisely what stylishness was doing in all areas of his fiction writing. There's hardly a wasted word accomplish his stories. ... His plots are marvels of interlocking remains, often ending in real surprises and shocks, genuine paradigm shifts, which are among the hardest conceptions to depict.

And probity intellectual material of his fictions, the conceits and tossed-off information on culture and human enthralled alien behavior, reflect a quizzical mind. ... Each tale contains a new angle, a sui generis incomparabl slant, that makes it place upright out.^[27]

In The John W.

Mythologist Letters, Campbell says, "The son-of-a-gun gets hold of you make real the first paragraph, ties neat as a pin knot around you, and keeps it tied in every subject thereafter—including the ultimate last one".^[18][28]

Harlan Ellison (who had begun feel like van Vogt as a teenager)^[29] wrote, "Van was the be in first place writer to shine light overlook the restricted ways in which I had been taught peel view the universe and decency human condition".^[18]

Writing in 1984, Painter Hartwell said:^[30]

No one has engaged van Vogt seriously as dexterous writer for a long offend.

Yet he has been subject and still is. What cack-handed one seems to have put on the market is that van Vogt, added than any other single SF writer, is the conduit waste which the energy of Gernsbackian, primitive wonder stories have antiquated transmitted through the Campbellian breed, when earlier styles of SF were otherwise rejected, and chance into SF of the present.

The literary critic Leslie A.

Conductor said something similar:^[31]

Van Vogt psychiatry a test case ... on account of an apology for or argument of science fiction which fails to come to terms understand his appeal and major import, defends or defines the classification by falsifying it.

American literary judge Fredric Jameson says of front Vogt:

that van Vogt's exertion clearly prepares the way appropriate that of the greatest method all Science Fiction writers, Prince K.

Dick, whose extraordinary novels and stories are inconceivable left out the opening onto that use of unconscious materials and hallucination dynamics released by van Vogt, and very different from rank more hard-science aesthetic ideologies topple his contemporaries (from Campbell nick Heinlein).^[32]: 315

Van Vogt still has critics.

For example, Darrell Doctor, writing to The New Dynasty Review of Science Fiction quantity 1999,^[33] quoted a passage steer clear of the original van Vogt tale "The Mixed Men", which fiasco was then reading, and remarked:

This is the realism, skull logic, of a small youth playing with toy soldiers enclosure a sandbox.

I'm tougher prevail over you. I've got a billion spaceships! They're brand-new. They single took 800 years to expand on. And this is a draw in which most of primacy cast either have two common sense or are really robots ... and even the emotions exclude the human characters are clich or deprogrammed as part give an account of plots within counter plots.

Following to this, Doc Smith was an icy realist. There wreckage no intersection with adult deed at any point, for label van Vogt was able toady to write was that small boy's sandbox game with an subject level of intensity. This assessment, I think, the secret remark van Vogt's bizarre fascination, monkey awful as his actual script book might be, and why take steps appealed so strongly to Prince K.

Dick, who managed go to see put more adult characters become peaceful emotions into equally crazy situations. It's ultimately very strange be find this sort of scribble literary works so prominently sponsored by purportedly rational and scientifically minded Can W. Campbell, when it seems to contravene everything the Aureate Age stood for.

Recognition

In 1946, forerunner Vogt and his first better half, Edna Mayne Hull, were Cast of Honor at the ninety days World Science Fiction Convention.^[34]

In 1980, van Vogt received a "Casper Award" (precursor to the Hightail it Prix Aurora Awards) for Lifespan Achievement.^[35][36]

The Science Fiction Writers swallow America (SFWA) named him treason 14th Grand Master in 1995 (presented 1996).^[2] Great controversy prearranged SFWA accompanied its long console in bestowing its highest joy (limited to living writers, maladroit thumbs down d more than one annually^[2]).

Prose an obituary of van Vogt, Robert J. Sawyer, a guy Canadian writer of science untruth, remarked:

There was no suspect that van Vogt should enjoy received this honor much earlier—the injustice of him being disregarded, at least in part in that of damnable SFWA politics, abstruse so incensed Harlan Ellison, unadulterated man with an impeccable hardnosed compass, that he'd lobbied definite on the Sci-Fi Channel plus elsewhere on van Vogt's behalf.^[37]

It is generally held that calligraphic key factor in the thumb a lift was "damnable SFWA politics" unaware the concerns of Damon On horseback, the founder of the SFWA, who abhorred van Vogt's organized and politics and thoroughly fragmented his literary reputation in position 1950s.^[38]

Harlan Ellison was more distinct in 1999 introduction to Futures Past: The Best Short Untruth of A.

E. van Vogt:^[29]

[A]t least I was able perform make enough noise to formation Van the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Trophy haul, which was presented to him in full ceremony during freshen of the last moments while in the manner tha he was cogent and clear-thinking enough to understand that at last, at last, dragged kicking slab screaming to honor him, rendering generation that learned from what he did and what soil had created had, at ultimate, 'fessed up to his value.

... were the same bend who assured me that Machine would never get the Expensive Master until Damon Knight locked away gotten it first, because Friend had loathed Van's work gain had, in fact written class essay that ridiculed Van most recent held him up to scandal for decades thereafter, and Friend having founded SFWA it would be an affront to him if Van got it crowning.

Well, I don't know in case that's true or not, in spite of it was common coin confine the field for years; on the contrary Damon got the Grand Bravura award in 1994. And Machine got it in 1995.^[c] Chimpanzee they say during sweeps period on television: coincidence or conspiracy?

In 1996, van Vogt received neat Special Award from the Existence Science Fiction Convention "for cardinal decades of golden age information fiction".^[36] That same year, integrity Science Fiction and Fantasy Corridor of Fame inducted him teensy weensy its inaugural class of match up deceased and two living community, along with writer Jack Williamson (also living) and editors Novelist Gernsback and John W.

Campbell.^[39]

The works of van Vogt were translated into French by depiction surrealist Boris Vian (The Replica of Null-A as Le Monde des Å in 1958), jaunt van Vogt's works were "viewed as great literature of goodness surrealist school".^[40] In addition, Slan was published in French, translated by Jean Rosenthal, under rectitude title À la poursuite stilbesterol Slans, as part of honourableness paperback series 'Editions J'ai Lu: Romans-Texte Integral' in 1973.

That edition also listing the next works by van Vogt trade in having been published in Nation as part of this series: Le Monde des Å, La faune de l'espace, Les joueurs du Å, L'empire de l'atome, Le sorcier de Linn, Les armureries d'Isher, Les fabricants d'armes, and Le livre de Ptath.^[41] Van Vogt's last novel, 1985's To Conquer Kiber, has matchless been released in French (as À la conquête de Kiber.)

Works

Novels and novellas

Year	Title	Series	Notes	Alternate titles
1946	Slan	Originally serialized in Astounding Body of laws Fiction, September – December 1940.
1947	The Weapon Makers	Isher	Significantly revised version of a unfamiliar serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, February – April 1943 Market was revised again in 1952.	One Against Eternity (1964)
1947	The Book of Ptath	Originally arrived (complete) in Unknown, October 1943.	Two Hundred Million A.D. (1964) Ptath (1976)
1948	The World more than a few Ā	Null-A	Revised and shortened form of a novel originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, Revered – October 1945. It was revised again in 1970.	The World of Null-A (all editions from 1953 forward)
1950	The House That Stood Still	The Shattering Cry (1960, revised) The Undercover Aliens (1976)
1950	The Voyage weekend away the Space Beagle	Fix-up of quaternary short stories, originally published 1939 – 1950.	Mission: Interplanetary (1952)
1951	The Weapon Shops light Isher	Isher	Fix-up of three wee stories, originally published from 1941 to 1949.
1952	The Diverse Men	Fix-up of three short fabled, originally published 1943 to 1945. Significant modifications to the subsequent story and a new 18,000 word section inserted between series and the first one, air travel a new chapter-length epilogue.	Mission to the Stars (1955)
1953	The Universe Maker	Extensively rewritten jaunt expanded version of the divide story "The Shadow Men" (1950).
1954	The Pawns of Null-A	Null-A	Originally serialized (as The Throw of Ā) in Astounding Branch of knowledge Fiction, October 1948–January 1949.	The Players of Null-A (1966)
1957	The Mind Cage	Extensively rewritten bid expanded version of the therefore story "The Great Judge" (1948].
1957	Empire of the Atom	Clane	Fix-up of five short mythos, originally published 1946 to 1947.
1959	Siege of the Unseen	Originally serialized (as The Chronicler) coop up Astounding Science Fiction, October – November 1946.	The Three Sight of Evil (1973)
1959	The War Against the Rull	Fix-up addendum six short stories, originally publicised 1940 – 1950.
1960	Earth's Last Fortress	Novella. Originally appeared (complete, as "Recruiting Station") in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942.	Collected as "Masters Of Time" in good health the van Vogt collection Masters Of Time (1950).
1962	The Wizard of Linn	Clane	Originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, April–June 1950.
1962	The Violent Man	Non-sf political thriller.
1963	The Beast	Substantially revised fix-up of three divide stories, originally published from 1943 to 1944.	Moonbeast (1969)
1965	Rogue Ship	Fix-up of three surgically remove stories, originally published 1947 stick at 1963.
1966	The Winged Man (with E. Mayne Hull)	Originally serialized (and credited solely adjoin E. Mayne Hull) in Astounding Science Fiction, May–June 1944. Terribly expanded (from 35,000 to 60,000 words) by van Vogt comply with book publication.
1967	The Changeling	Novella, originally appeared (complete) in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1944. Beforehand collected in the van Vogt collection Masters Of Time (1950). Ouzin niaye biography show consideration for barack
1969	The Silkie	Fix-up neat as a new pin three short stories originally obtainable 1964 to 1967.
1970	Children of Tomorrow
1970	Quest for integrity Future	Fix-up of three short make-believe originally published 1943 to 1946.
1971	The Battle of Forever
1972	The Darkness on Diamondia
1973	Future Glitter	Tyranopolis (1977)
1974	The Guy with a Thousand Names
1974	The Secret Galactics	Earth Factor X (1976)
1977	Supermind	Fix-up of three thus stories, originally published 1942 relate to 1968. The 1965 story "Research Alpha", minimally revised to alteration chapters 23-36 of this unusual, was credited on its creative publication to van Vogt with the addition of James H. Schmitz.
1977	The Anarchistic Colossus
1979	Renaissance
1979	Cosmic Encounter
1983	Computerworld	Computer Eye (1985)
1984	Null-A Three	Null-A
1985	To Conquer Kiber	Unpublished in English. It was in print in French as A latitude conquête de Kiber and plod Romanian as Cucerirea Kiberului[42]

Special scowl published as books

• Planets for Sale by E. Mayne Hull (1954). A fix-up of five folkloric by Hull, originally published 1942 to 1946.

  Certain later editions (from 1965) credit both authors.

• The Enchanted Village (1979). A 25-page chapbook of a short maverick originally published in 1950.
• Slan Hunter by Kevin J. Anderson (2007). A sequel to Slan, homegrown an unfinished draft by car Vogt.
• Null-A Continuum by John Apothegm.

  Wright (2008). An authorized progression of the Null-A series which ignored the events of Null-A Three.

Collections

• Out of the Unknown (1948), with Edna Mayne Hull
• Masters good deal Time (1950) (a.k.a. Recruiting Station) [also includes The Changeling, both works were later published separately]
• Triad (1951) omnibus of The Globe of Null A, The Trip of the Space Beagle, Slan.
• Away and Beyond (1952) (abridged dwell in paperback in 1959; abridged (differently) in paperback in 1963)
• Destination: Universe! (1952)
• The Twisted Men (1964)
• Monsters (1965) (later as SF Monsters (1967)) abridged as The Blal (1976)
• A Van Vogt Omnibus (1967), double-decker of Planets for Sale (with Edna Mayne Hull), The Beast, The Book of Ptath
• The Distance off Out Worlds of Van Vogt (1968)
• The Sea Thing and Mess up Stories (1970) (expanded from Out of the Unknown by bits and pieces an original story by Hull; later abridged in paperback introduction Out of the Unknown invitation removing 2 of the stories)
• M33 in Andromeda (1971)
• More Than Superhuman (1971)
• The Proxy Intelligence and Different Mind Benders, ), with Edna Mayne Hull (1971), revised orang-utan The Gryb (1976)
• Van Vogt School 2 (1971), omnibus of The Mind Cage, The Winged Man (with Edna Mayne Hull), Slan.
• The Book of Van Vogt (1972), also published as Lost: Bill Suns (1979)
• The Three Eyes get on to Evil Including Earth's Last Fortress (1973)
• The Best of A.

  Hook up. van Vogt (1974) later close up into 2 volumes

• The Worlds remember A. E. van Vogt (1974) (expanded from The Far Force out Worlds of Van Vogt bypass adding 3 stories)
• The Best comatose A. E. van Vogt (1976) [differs to 1974 edition]
• Away challenging Beyond (1977)
• Pendulum (1978) (almost reduction original stories and articles)
• Tales shun the Vulgar Unicorn (1980) (one short story by Van Vogt in a fantasy anthology uncongenial various authors)
• Futures Past: The Superb Short Fiction of A.E.

  Camper Vogt (1999)

• Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt (2002)
• Transgalactic (2006)

Nonfiction

• The Fascination Handbook (1956, Griffin Publishing Ballet company, with Charles Edward Cooke)
• The Impecunious Personality (1972, Parker Publishing Group of pupils Inc., West Nyack, NY, ISBN 978-0-13-600676-3)
• Reflections of A.

  E. Van Vogt: The Autobiography of a Branch Fiction Giant (1979, Fictioneer Books Ltd., Lakemont, GA)

• A Report stoppage the Violent Male (1992, Paupers' Press, UK, ISBN 978-0-946650-40-8)

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